Upcoming Events:
May 12-Field Trip to the Washington State History Museum - Wear Seabury shirt and bring a cold lunch!
May 13-Pajama and Pancake Day
May 26-Grandparents and Special Friends Day
May 27-May 30-No School
June 3-Beach Day
June 6 (tentatively)-Publishers' Picnic
June 9-Field Day
June 10-Last Day of School, noon dismissal
Our Horse's Tale book continued into the 1910s and 20s this past week. The students visited Roslyn and Darrington, WA. they did some comparisons of different eras, as well as comparing towns. The students are enjoying reading this great book.
In math, we began a unit on multiplication of larger numbers. The students have been multiplying multiples of 10 and estimating products of larger numbers. We want to make sure they can understand whether their answer makes sense by estimating answers first. In the next week, the students will be learning a few different ways to multiply multi-digit numbers.
Our writers' workshop time finds us trying to persuade someone to move to Washington. The students are writing a 5 paragraph paper, complete with opening, 3 supporting, and concluding paragraphs, topic sentences, good details, and concluding sentences. I think these papers would convince me!
In science, the children began working on their murals for their biome. They must show plants, animals, the climate, and human impact on their biome mural. We are also talking about how to make things in the appropriate scale. It is hard for the kids to understand that if your grass is 1 foot tall, the bison wouldn't be less than that!
Social Studies continues with research for the Jeopardy game. Our field trip to the Washington State History Museum will tie in nicely with our study. Students will explore the museum and write notes of questions to include in our game.
This week and next, we have Joanie Joachim working with the students as our Artist in Residence. The students are working on making sculptures. Our first project was to use a birdhouse, clay pot, stick, and other materials to create a fun and funky sculpture. Enjoy these pictures from this week and be sure to check back for more pictures next week.
